"Gerlögs rune"
is a theatre performance with its premier on Adelsö in 1995. In
proximity to the show there was a Viking age village where I worked as a rune carver.

The meaning was that the runestone would
belong to the theatre every year it returned, but the show have let await
itself and doesn't seem to recur before the summer of 2002.

Maybe the work with the runestone will
proceed, but perhaps it will be saved as it is, a memory. Maybe there will
be a new runestone or rune slab carved for the next assembly that then
becomes both bigger and yet more organized.

Background:
The theatre
is based upon six runic inscriptions

that Gerlög and
her daughter Inga let carve in Hilleshög / Ekerö municipality
and
Snottsta in Vallentuna. The
original of the runeslab here below is carved by Torbjörn bard in the
11th century, on Gerlögs request.

The Runeslab wes carved late in Gerlögs life
when she could look back at everything. The rune slab have Upplands (The
middle part of Sweden) longest rune inscription and gives us, along with
Ingas runestones, a unique knowledge about the society, heritage and the
woman's position in 11th century.

The rune inscription on
U 29 freely translated:-Interpret! Germund got
Gerlög as wife when still a maiden. Before Germund drowned they got a
son. The son died later on. Gerlög then got Gudrik as husband.
He...this... then they got children but only one of the children survived,
she was named Inga.

Ragnfast in Snottsta got
Inga as wife, then he died, and also their son died. Inga inherited her
son. Then Inga got Erik as husband before she died herself. Gerlög
inherited all after Inga, her daughter.
/ Torbjörn bard carved runes.

During the time Inga lived in Snottsta she
let carve four runestones that all can complete this rune inscription. All
together this gives us an insight in these women's life's that there now
is fully possible to do theatrical version of Gerlögs colorful life.